Project X Zone 2, known in Japan as Project X Zone 2: Brave New World, is one of the more unique role playing game launching on Nintendo 3DS in the future. The game’s roster features a lot of popular characters taken from Bandai Namco, SEGA and Capcom series and seeing them interact is definitely one of the reasons the original game has been so successful.

Several returning and new characters have been confirmed for Project X Zone 2 and another one has been confirmed earlier today. According to Japanese magazine Famitsu, Saya will be be back in the game after having appeared in the previous two cross-over titles Project X Zone and Namco X Capcom, which has been released on PlayStation 2 years back. The next issue of the magazine, hitting Japanese stands in two days, is also going to include some new details on new characters and gameplay features.

The Project X Zone 2 official Japanese website has been updated earlier this month with a few new screenshots showcasing some returning characters like Chun-Li, Ling Xiaoyu, Dimitri, Morrigan and others will be back in the game. Some of the characters will become solo units while other will be paired to different ones.

Project X Zone 2 is the sequel to the original Project X Zone, the unique strategy role playing game developed by Banpresto and Monolith Soft featuring several characters taken from Bandai Namco, Capcom and SEGA series such as Mega Man X and Zero from Mega Man X, Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter, Yuri, Estelle and Flynn from Tales of Vesperia, Jin Kazama from Tekken, Dante and Lady from Devil May Cry and many others.

Project X Zone 2 is going to include several tweaks to its gameplay experience as well as plenty of new characters and pairs such as Strider Hiryu from Strider, Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil, Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey from Ace Attorney, Axel Stone from Streets of Rage, Vergil from Devil May Cry and many others. The new characters and gameplay tweaks will make Project X Zone 2 as engaging as its predecessor as if not even more

Project X Zone 2 will be released next year in North America and Europe exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. More on the game will be coming soon so stay tuned for all the latest news.